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Sam Shepard Biography

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017), known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose body of work spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most given to any writer or director. He wrote 44 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described him as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."

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When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it. . . What we're searching for is what we lack.

Dating, Inspirational, Know, Lack, Motivational, Searching

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

Geared, Hollywood, Idiocy, Teenage, Toward

My dad's side of the family. . . they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.

Dad, Grandfather, Real, Sober

When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.

Jailers, Odds, Typewriter, Typewriters, Writing

Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission.

Audition, Decision, Waiting, Writer, Writing

I was in the war. I know how to kill. I was over there. I know how to do it. I've done it before. It's no big deal. You just make an adjustment. You convince yourself it's all right. That's all. It's easy. You just slaughter them.

Big, Convince, Done, Know, Murder, War

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Apples, Funny, Orange, Separate, Two, Writer

We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.

Doe, Felt, Ideas, Lapel, Occurred, Patriotism

Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.

Car, Depreciate, Investment, Land, Machine, Years

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

Different, Novelist, Play, Song, Writing

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

Helping, Image, Man, Men, Needs, Original

I think without writing I would feel completely useless.

Think, Thinking, Useless, Writing

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

Fall, America, Tragedy, Everybody, Apart, Tragedies

I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.

Car, Cars, Help, Ideas, People

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in. . . There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

Country, Home, Like, Nostalgia, Place, Reckon

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Writing, Acting, Division, Interested, Places, Things

All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?

Capsized, Childhood, Drama, Father, Long, Time

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

Fantasy, Shakes, Shake, Keep, Away

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Horse, Writing, Earning, Writer, Certain

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

Disease, Feel Better, Love, Love Is

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